You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

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."

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

There are absolutely no rules about style at all. Not for me.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.