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

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

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

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

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.