The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.