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.

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.

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.

To teach you need books, to educate you need heart.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

Will loved to gallop.

It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

You are my mate, Ria. In my soul. You are my mate. ~ Mercury

I can cook a few things. I always save the same recipes to impress my friends, and I always do two or three things, so they think I can cook. But I don't know how to do anything else.

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

Courage is a function of process.