I’ve never really understood national pride, or even ethnic pride. It should be more about pride at being a human and living on this planet with fellow humans surely, let’s widen the parameters a bit

Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind.

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

You can choose to be part of the solution or part of the problem.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.