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."

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.

I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift

Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.