Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

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?

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.

Judges are but men and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality give it whatever other name you please.

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

That's what I need from everybody right now - enjoy life with me.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.