Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

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

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.

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.