My Characters Are Actually Usually Pretty Smart

If You Have A Patient In A Doctor's Office Who's Just Been Told They Have Terminal Cancer But There's This Operation They Could Perform Right Now That Might Save Their Lives. ... They Have A 90 Percent Chance Of Surviving The Operation — If You Tell Them That, They Respond One Way. If You Tell Them ... That They Have A 10 Percent Chance Of Being Killed By The Operation, They Are About Three Times Less Likely To Have The Operation.

The Idea That It's Smart To Allow Wall Street Firms, With This "too Big To Fail" Imprimatur, To Become Hedge Funds Again - It's Unconscionable. You're Essentially Saying We're Going To Take Some Elites In Our Society And Let Them Roll The Bones In The Marketplace, And If It Works Out They Get Rich, And If It Doesn't Work Out The Taxpayer Comes In Again. That Seems Absolutely Crazy To Me. That Seems To Be Where They're Headed. I Mean, Maybe They're Not And I'm Wrong. Maybe They'll Do Sensible Things. It's Hard To Know! There Doesn't Seem To Be A Plan.

I Procrastinate To A Point Where I'm Filled With Self-loathing And Then I Start Writing. It's Usually A State Of Self-loathing That Gets Me Going.

Like Adam, Formed From Clay, Children Are Formed From The Biological Material Of Which They Are Made Or By The Hands Of Their Parents.

Everywhere You Turn You See Americans Sacrifice Their Long-term Interests For A Short-term Reward.