If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

I trained myself to be organized.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.