In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

When we dare to hope, we create more hope in the world.

I am with you always. You just have to find me by opening your inner eyes and closing your egocentric mind.

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Life may suck but death is worse.

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.