I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.