Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling.

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

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.