Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

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 don't teach flowers to bloom

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

No pressure is greater than God's power.

I'm fast for a middleweight - I have middleweight speed.

I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.

I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in