Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

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."

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.