Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

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

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

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

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.