I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

A perpetual world

The eye is the jewel of the body.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

I am also really into religious artifacts.