The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

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.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.

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.

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