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

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

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.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

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