It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

A police state is a country run by criminals

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.