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

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

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

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.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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

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

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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