If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.