“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
“I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.”
“All geniuses die young.”
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”
“What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.”