As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

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?

Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer.

Now if we only knew what it means to know, we would be conscious.

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.