A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
ballet perfection
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
evolution man
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
change lawandlawyers rights women
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
marriage people
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man
medicine
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
movies trouble
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
mind paradox reality
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
rumor
The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
people truth
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.
When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
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