"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."

"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."

"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

"It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do."

"it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."