I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.