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..

A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whe….

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. M….

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….

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..

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….

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

The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the boo….

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'v….

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation..

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..