Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

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

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.