"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."

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

"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."

"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free."

"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."

"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."