One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

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?

Wear #gratitude and life will show unto you into rhythm of synchronicity #quote

They hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious.

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.