There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun.
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

