I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.