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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.