John Guare

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.