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

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.

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.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

Consult duty not events.