Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

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?

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.