Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.