Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)