Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

You can't let your past write the future

I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.