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This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.