To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

Ballet is only good when it is great.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

I believe in love―a kind, selfless, unending devotion. I believe it is rare.

False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known

Content Is King, Distribution is Queen

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.