“He's a genius…a classical dancer like I never saw in my life.”

“I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies”

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life… I have put only my talent into my works.”

“He is dreadfully married. "He's the most married man I ever saw in my life."”

“My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer… and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman”

“By the time it was done my heart was pounding like I just saw the rest of my life. I was fucking doomed.”

“There never was a greater perfectionist, there never was, and never will be, a better dancer, and I never knew anybody more kind, more considerate, or more completely a gentleman…I love Fred, John, and I admire and respect him. I guess it's because he's so many things I'd like to be and I'm not.”

“I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.”

“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”

“I never conduct any of the ballets I conducted for the Ballets Russes, without my mind's eye being completely aware of the dancers.”