Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

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?

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

You are nothing but trouble." If he'd meant to censure her, then he had the wrong girl. Trouble wasn't a dirty word when you were a Sweet.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

My husband knows me better than anyone.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.