I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

Happiness is the appreciation of what you have, not what you should have.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Dance like nobody's looking.

I've never taken myself too seriously.