"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 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."

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

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar."

"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present."

"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."