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.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Dance in the body you have.

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

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

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

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.