What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.

How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

The unique must be fulfilled.

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.