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

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"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."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"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."

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors."

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism."

"Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ('Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.')"

"When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared."