being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"