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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I liked the structure of ballet.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.