The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

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.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

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.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."