I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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