Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

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.

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

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

New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

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.