Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

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."

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.

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.