The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

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

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

Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.