The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

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

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

i write, because not breathing is not an option.

Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.

On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.

Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare.

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff, very little in the way of actually lifting heavy weights, and a very, very low calorie diet.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.