Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

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

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

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