James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

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."

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.