God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Once you label me you negate me.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.