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.

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

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

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.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

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.