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 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 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?

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.