Quotes from John Guare

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

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.

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.

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.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

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

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.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.