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

Pity is a corroding thing.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

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

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

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.

The body is a sacred garment.