Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.