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

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.

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

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.