There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

You can possess what you dream of.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.