Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible