I Trained Myself To Be Organized.

The Moment The Curtain Rose On That First Ballet, I Knew Something Wonderful And New Had Come Into My Life. I Can Still See The First Scene. The Ballet Was Divertimento No. 15

I Think President Obama Has Done More Than He Is Given Credit For.

Whenever I Go To Work I Wear A Jacket And A Tie, Because I'm Inherently Quite Lazy, And My Books Take So Long To Do, And My Publishers Don't Bug Me, So It's So Easy To Fool Yourself Into Thinking You're Working Harder Than You Really Are.

There Used To Be This Feeling Under Eisenhower And Kennedy And Roosevelt And Truman That Government Was A Solution. Trust In The Presidency Fell Precipitously Under Johnson - Real Lows. And It's Never Come Back. It's A Trend That, If You're Liberal, Is Really Discouraging.

If Things Are Going Well, If The Writing's Coming Along, I Jump Out Of Bed Happy. And If The Previous Day Has Been Bad, I Get Out Of Bed Disgruntled.