If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

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

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.