Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.

If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry.

A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

Now I got my foot - through the door - and I ain't goin' no where.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.