▶ "I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."; "I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."; "I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."; "I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand."; "I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."; …"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."; "Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."; "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
