The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

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