People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

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.

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

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