Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.