I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

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.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

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

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

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

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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!

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.