What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

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.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

The extraordinary's the norm.

Hair growing out every hole in me.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

I've defended my title for eight years, let's see if Ricky (Hatton) is still champion in four years.

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.