Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

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'.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

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