"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."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."

"Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."

"The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day."

"Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?"

"We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror."