No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

Did the media ever question anything about Obamacare, the intricate do's and don'ts, the policy cogs? No.[Barack] Obama just wanted it.