A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

Life’s harrowing echo only to be faded into exiled loneliness

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.