Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings.

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.

I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.