I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

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's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain atschool?

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

I think we're going in the right direction.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes.

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.