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

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.

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

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

Courage and fear were one thing too.

An attitude of gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of life.

Nothing can be inside an edgeless universe.

Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.

Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.