If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

you are a person, not a shredder.so quit tearing yourself to shreds.

They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did.

Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness.

Chemistry [between people] is not the easiest thing to evaluate. Just like talent and health, these things can change.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

I do not know how to make poems

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.