It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.