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

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.

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.

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

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

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

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.