An idea is salvation by imagination

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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.

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

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I am not now That which I have been.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.