The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

I apply for a new job twice a week, every week. I am applying for the position of millionaire but so far my numbers haven't come up.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it.

When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.