Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

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.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

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