I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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

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

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

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

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Humility is attentive patience.

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

Jests that give pains are not jests.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.