Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

Ballet is only good when it is great.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.I tend to agree with the first part.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.