Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

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.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

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.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.