Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

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?

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

I work. I have a life. There's not much to tell.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.