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

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

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

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

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