Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

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

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

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.

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

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.