Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

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?

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.

We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.

If you are willing to stir a pot, you better be willing to eat what comes out of it.