"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."

"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."

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."

"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."

"Fortune's wheel is ever turning."

"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."