“Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.”

“If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.”

“When content scarcity was the norm, we could live with a minimum of context. In a limited market, our editors became skilled in making decisions about what would be published. Now, in an era of abundance, editors have inherited a new and fundamentally different role: figuring out how “what is published” will be discovered.”

“A wife should submit herself to her husband, her husband should make her great if he wants to enjoy her.”

“Many (editors) have the technique. I don't think there are quite as many who can make a film purely emotional...”

“Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.”