The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me.

Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

... far be it from a Frenchman to interfere with love.

...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.