Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

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.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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.

The greatest thing we can do is love another.

The end of this life is not the end of life.

The key is to have energy.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

When do we get to do the stuff? You know, the stuff here in the Bible; the stuff Jesus did, like healing the sick, raising the dead, healing the blind - stuff like that?

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.