I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.

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

The body says what words cannot.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.