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.

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

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

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

Genius is another word for magic.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

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.