One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Whence has come thy lasting power.