I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

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.

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.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

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

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.