“I'm married. And pregnant.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”

“The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.”

“It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.”

“Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.”