My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

Eventually his books of essays were transformed into two stage productions. Negotiations are under way for further publication in Europe in Spanish Italian and German. His prose style is very simple and direct and finds life-affirming maxims in such mundane matters as zoos leaf-raking and dusting.