Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

If you crack a joke right now I swear I will knee you in the junk.

Every time you tell a lie an angel punches a unicorn in the face with a kitten.

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

A congressman actually apologized to BP's CEO for the way the company has been treated. How stupid are you when the CEO of BP is in the room and people think you're the moron?

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.