I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

I wish I was more adventurous.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.