Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.