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.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

The unique must be fulfilled.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.