I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; th….

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion..

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitc….

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson ….

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can k….

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head..

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians..

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer..

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a….

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth..

Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingb….

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the ….

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play..

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be..

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open..

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea..

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming..

Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies..

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself..