What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

Even the ears must dance.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Liberty is dangerous.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

I am hunted by humans.

You can never take the violence back.

Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.