A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

A lie never lives to be old.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.