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.

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

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

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

...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.

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?