Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.
In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.
I do not come out of a literary tradition.
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.
Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.
I don't answer questions about conjectures.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Sometimes I wake up and think... 'I was asleep.
Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
