For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

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

It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.