“However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.”

“He had, like everyone else, his suffix ist, without which nobody could have lived in those days, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orléanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.”

“My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.”

“M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.”

“If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.”

“I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.”