I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

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

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.