You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world

I trained myself to be organized.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.