Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

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?

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.