Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

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 purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

Truth is something that happens to an idea.