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

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

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

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.

New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

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.

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