I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

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 fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.