We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

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.

Amanda learned a valuable lesson. Everything happens for a reason and in the end, you will be happy.

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.