The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

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."

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

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