I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.