If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

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?

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

There is a quality about women who choosemen sparingly

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

If I help one person out with getting through the struggles that I've had, then I've done my job on this planet and this life.

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.