Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.