My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

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

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.