How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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

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

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Thought is free.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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

Common sense is not so common.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

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.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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

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