I'm a very big believer in fate.
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
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.
I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.
One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.
In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
Some sorts of truth are truer than others.