Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.