69 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

I don’t think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

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.

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.

There’s no American playwright after 1945 who wasn’t profoundly affected – who didn’t have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

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

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.