A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.