Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

The best advice comes from the one who has made more mistakes– they have learned great lessons! The one who always got it right has surely not lived through the entire experience.

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?