My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

Theatre is immediate gratification

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

I love life. I love the live theater.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis.

You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.