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.

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

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

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