Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

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.

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.

We are often more a piece of work than a work of art.

Intuition is the gentle hand of divine love.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

What musicals need is a new me.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

Six happy years together Such a perfect matching You're entering the 7 year itch zone This is no time for scratching

There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.