It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.

Personal experiences that disrupt stale routines result in the phenomena of cognitive dissiliency, jolting our minds and enhancing our ability to internalizing new information.

Renewal of mind leads to revival of spirit and revitality of soul.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.