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.

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.