America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.