From year to year environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives but from evolutionary or geological perspectives what is happening is explosive change.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done his aim fulfilled they will say: we did it ourselves.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing but except on the sunniest days you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.