Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

One is born to be a great dancer.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?