Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

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 don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

Being Dead means very light housekeeping