The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

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

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

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.

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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Effective action is always unjust.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

What is to give light must endure burning.

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