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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Give up trying to make me give up

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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