Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

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.

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.

Setbacks are common enemies of both achievers and people whose dream cut short. The difference is that the former persist against continual setbacks while the latter quit.

They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading.