Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

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?

Darkness lingered in those blue eyes, like ghosts haunted him despite only the two of them standing in this cabin.

Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

Dogs make good pets because they are very loyal

Don't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.