People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long. — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare Copy Share
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share
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… — John Guare Copy Share
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share
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. — John Guare Copy Share
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for… — John Guare Copy Share
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human… — John Guare Copy Share
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to… — John Guare Copy Share
