“I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it’s like food.”

I love costumes in dance, I think it’s very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.

I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn’t flow, and it’s very tense.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book.

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.

I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.

For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.

It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.