Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!
Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.
I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.
No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.