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

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

I don't like things that aren't true.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.