Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.