Man is a robot with defects.

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?

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.