Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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?

Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.

Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.

Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Dance in the body you have.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Beware the man of the single book

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.