There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

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.

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.

You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected will be gone one day and you still have the task of keeping American democracy going.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.