No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

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?

It does. This is how it should have been anyway.' I caught my breath as he kissed my neck, teeth grating my skin. 'And I'll take back what's mine.

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

Donald Trump is not just a problem for the EU, but for the whole world.

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.