I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

A lie never lives to be old.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

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

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.