Existing is plagiarism.

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?

Life had a way of shifting under her feet like quicksand and she had learned to just make the best of it. Like Gigi always said, ‘when God closes a door, he shoves you out the window.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver