Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.

A commission is an invitation to fall in love.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.