John Guare

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

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

— John Guare

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what…

— John Guare

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that…

— John Guare

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all…

— John Guare

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got…

— John Guare

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know…

— John Guare

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

— John Guare

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

— John Guare

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

— John Guare

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter…

— John Guare

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

— John Guare

I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can…

— John Guare

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what…

— John Guare

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming…

— John Guare

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to…

— John Guare

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we…

— John Guare

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

— John Guare

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities…

— John Guare

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all…

— John Guare

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…

— John Guare

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry,…

— John Guare

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

— John Guare

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us…

— John Guare

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

— John Guare