It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.