The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

There is no short cut to a place worth going.

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.