By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

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?

We put our hope and trust in the living God.

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.