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

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

"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."

"Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down."

"By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible."

"Culture makes all men gentle."

"There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them."

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."