All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

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

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

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.