New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

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

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

What is to give light must endure burning.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.