“The only way to do it is to do it.”

“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.”

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”

“I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks as heroes do, experiencing, living, becoming the main character—but no matter what, we all have at least one story to tell.”

“HELEN HAYES: “Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?”TIZIANO CONTI: “The fifth Canto.”HELEN HAYES: “The Hell, huh?”TIZIANO CONTI: “L’inferno depicts the truth.”

“Breathing. Only the chore and sadness of breathing and breathing, as things change from tender to dry, new to old, the night-moon that grows thin then swells, the fireless sun that lights up, the soughing of wind that transports, shatters, gathers, and drives away the clouds, raising and flattening the dust. Only the sorrow of going to sleep and waking up, feeling life without knowing where it comes from, aware that it will flee without knowing why it was given to you, why it is taken from you. Here you are: there is this and this and this. And now, enough.”

“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”