Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

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.