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

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

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

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?

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

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.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.