Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.
People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.