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

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

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

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

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Give up trying to make me give up

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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

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

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.