Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in 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?

There is no any secret to being a genius, all you have to do is be yourself.

Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.