A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

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?

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

Bright light. You've always found your way.

The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.

My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

Imperfections define perfection

Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.