Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

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?

To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.

In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.” She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.