Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

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?

He, who don’t know the Almighty God don’t know what He knows for what he knows, knows the Almighty God as the Supreme God!

I wanted to go to him to save me, but he was the one who broke me this time.

The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.