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 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.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

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.

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.

In the course of interviewing, I've discovered that if you don't give your guest something to react to, they don't react. They simply say what they've been saying every time they've been interviewed. The last thing you want is to have people say to you what they've said to someone else.

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.