You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

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.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Nothing is black or white.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

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

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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