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

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.

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

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

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.

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