What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
Barack Obama's been president for about eight hours; President Obama was here for eight years. So if you want to talk about numbers that matter, it's quantifying all the losses - the women who were slid into poverty, those who can't find meaningful work, and their children who deserve a better life.