In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

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?

Leadership is not about about having power over people - it is about empowering people ans showing them direction

Everybody makes mistakes, but when the same ones become consistent, they are commitments.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

I like people who are being normal and being themselves.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose