More From Walter Isaacson
- "In the age of the internet when everybody’s a pundit, we’re still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that’s very expensive."
- "When you write biographies, whether it’s about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human."
- "You can’t have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don’t have an innovative economy unless you have a great education."
More In Respect
- "I love painting and music, of course. I don’t know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I’ve certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn’t read it until I was in my late 20s."― Kenneth Koch
- "Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."― Sydney Smith
- "It’s funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory."― Tom Baker