Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.

To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless.

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.

Times will change for the better when you change.

What you think to be a tragedy id God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.