What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dance is music made visible

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I hear a sacred voice.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.