A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

A lonely night is more profound then lonesome nights.

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

If I feel like King King, I'll throw like King King.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.