I'm talking about love! You know what it does to me? It shrinks my stomach, doesn't it, it pickles my guts, yeah. But what does it do to my mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent, supremely competent. I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michelangelo, moulding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh, painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto.
I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers- all three of them.
I'm W. Shakespeare. And out there it's not the world any longer- it's the Nile- and down it floats the barge of Cleopatra.

This is a slightly altered quote from The Lost Weekend