Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

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?

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.

Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

To all the readers, whom despitethe attraction of tv, of internet, of family troubles, of video games, of sport, of night clubs, have found some hoursso we can all dream together.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet