Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

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?

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known.

I think all we should legislate is morality.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.