They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they'd hang head down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along. But no—with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider.

The best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world.

Development economics is ultimately about improving people's lives.

"The writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to question the unquestionable, and to reveal the hidden."

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.