(the audition scene from The Producers (the original from 1968)
"Analysing myself this afternoon, I've discovered that my stylistic system is based on two principles, and in the best tradition of classical writers I immediately uphold these two principles as general foundations of all good style: 1) to express what one feels exactly as it is felt - clearly, if it is clear; obscurely, if obscure; confusedly, if confused - and 2) to understand that grammar is an instrument and not a law."