At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.