The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.

A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

0 thou who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh and then impute my fall to sin.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

A naive dream is extremely powerful.