People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.

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 Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.