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.

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

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

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.

1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.