You talk as if you were the boss.

And I'm treating you, my inner circle, like you're the enemy.

You talk as if you were the boss.

You look like a tourist. But I am a tourist!

Stop taking pictures. You look like a tourist.

Driving in the dark feels like flying!

Walking underneath the full bloom of sakura can feel like walking through a floral tunnel.

You look back on your day, and you're like, I got nothing done today.

Any time you go backwards, any time you skip a step imagine walking up a staircase where some of the treads are missing, or the heights are different heights.

He invites us, the reader, to think of an experience from your childhood something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there.

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature and not just Things Fall Apart, because that would be like saying, I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.

But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, Why are you being so mellow? mellow, of course, being the exact opposite of R O W D I E.

It s true that I speak about the past, because I really have witnessed a clear change in a number of matters I mean a noticeable change, if you compare the situation today to that of 10 years ago.

I had a conversation with one of the investment bankers who, at the time when you basically sold Virgin Records and invested heavily in Virgin Atlantic, and his view was that you were trading, you know, the world's fourth biggest record company for the twenty fifth biggest airline and that you were out of your mind.

But if you took this 30 percent, these 300 people and had them nominate their friends and took the same number of vaccine doses and vaccinated the friends of the 300 the 300 friends you can get the same level of herd immunity as if you had vaccinated 96 percent of the population at a much greater efficiency, with a strict budget constraint.

Imagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzed for precise keystrokes and pedal motions, then played back on computer controlled grand pianos.

John Hockenberry So it sounds to me like what you're saying is that there may be some temptation on the part of people to look at your work and go I think I've heard this, in my kind of pop psychological understanding of play, that somehow, the way animals and humans deal with play, is that it's some sort of rehearsal for adult activity.