People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

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

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.