I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

It's fun to give pleasure to people.