The hardest step in learning flamenco dance is the first one the student takes into the studio.

I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.