Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.
Get down, get naked, get savage.
Reform is born of need, not pity.
What writing does is to reveal.
You've got to build a career and a practice.
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
Books are the most tolerant of friends.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
