Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.