Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

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.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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.

Without the patient, there is no healthcare.

I like facts... but sometimes too much of it... just puts limits in your head.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

I hate to run. I never, ever run.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

If you have the wherewithal to have a lot of money, have it.