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

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in 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.

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

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.