The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

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

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.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

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.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.