Art is an investigation.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.

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'.