I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.