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 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.

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?

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity you wouldn't have anything.

The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Talent or intelligence doesn’t matter, Its your dreams that will decied how big a person you will become

Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.