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

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.

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.

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

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Hope is a gracious expectation.

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

Rotten people will taste rotten ice cream.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

I feel like a tick on a dog.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.