Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

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

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

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

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

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

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."

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

I'm a bit of a tease. I'd make out with a lot of people but not go beyond that.