"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 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."

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

"I don't do drugs: I am drugs."

"I know of no way to judge the future but by the past."

"Publish and be damned!"

"PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency."

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same"

"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe."

"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."