The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

I’m meeting the attic before I meet the girl.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

More than a plan the right companion is who makes your travel memorable.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.