What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.