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

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

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 power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?

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