"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."

"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."

"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free."

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you."

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."