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You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting:
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.