"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."

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

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

"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."

"Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups."

"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring."