Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.