Diamond > Recent Status Updates

“…i wonder if i’ll ever be able to have what i like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything….or are all of my occasionally romances to fall to the ground after a month or so, like the jacaranda flowers? i always seem to end up with these irishmen, drinking strong spirits, having to resist actors who know what i like, however delicate and flimsy it may be.” (p.38)

“But i knew if i didn’t dance with this man that it would be one of those missed chances that punctures your life.”(p.27)

“he was such a good dancer that i didn’t have to do anything but close my eyes and be taken away stem the stream through the forest and up to the Magic Ball.” (p.27)

“women who dance with their eyes closed, smiling, are as near to heaven as you can get on earth” (p.27-28)

“I think that the truth was that Stravinsky lived in L.A. because when you’re in your studio, you don’t have to be a finished product all the time or make formal pronouncements. work and love—the two best things—flourish in studios. it’s when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear” pg. 9