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

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.

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.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Greatness is not always good.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Music is about the performance.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.