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."

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

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.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

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