Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

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.

Visionaries are limited by their visions.

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

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.