Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

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?

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

The fact speak for themselves.

But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

I try to eat healthy.

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.