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

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

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.

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

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

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.