Playwright Quotes

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
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.
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
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