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

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

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.