John Guare Quotations

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

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.

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

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.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.