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.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

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

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.

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.

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.