Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

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?

Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.