There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

Gus leaned back in his chair, appearing satisfied."Good, " he said. "Cause Maggie's all the nightmare I can take."I smiled. "Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me." He gave me a one-fingered salute

Once you see the good in someone, it’s hard not to notice the good in everyone.

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

All times are dangerous times.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.

You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.