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."

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

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.

I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

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.