Howard Hughes — "Give me a pen, but don't let your hand touch mine."

"I never shake hands. It's unhygienic."

"I'm not crazy. I'm just different."

"I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it …"

"Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies."

"Do you think if they asked a man if he was a Democrat or a Republican that he would refuse to answer on the grounds that his answer might incriminate him? The very fact that this man pleaded his const…"