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.

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

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

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