The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.

Hope is the most evil of all emotions

The Bible is the greatest book of all times.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose.The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.

But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.