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

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

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

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.

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.

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

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.