The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.