When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.