If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.

I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.