If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

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?

Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.

Do you have any toy train schedules?