"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

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

"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."

"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."

"Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."

"Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near."

"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."

"You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay."