If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

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.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

I do date quite frequently.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.