Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.