Who said “A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”?

“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”

“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”

“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”

“The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.”

“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”

“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”

“Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.”

“Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.”

“The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.”