I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

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."

Can still windmills, still produce wind? Can a heart still love, when a heart no longer is?

Never be a slanderous voice that hides in the darkness.

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.