When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity. ↗
But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current. ↗
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. ↗
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ↗
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward. ↗
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. ↗
And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary. ↗
