"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"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."

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

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

"The greatest ideas are the simplest."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide."

"Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must."

"The passions often engender their contraries."