I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

Today I found an old friend.

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.