The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

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.

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?

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

All products are a multiplication of time invested

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.

Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.