Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

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

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

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.