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'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.

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.

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.

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.

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