No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

I love all of myself in all ways for all time. I am made of pure love, and it permeates all of my selves.

The doors that open and close in our lives are not nearly as important as the person we are when we open them.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

I like jewelry. Big rings, big necklaces. Shoes, belts, luggage.

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.