The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.

We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

Predict the predictable, it sounds something strange and difficult, but so far is stupid. To predict the predictable is the stupid thing ever done by human kind.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

How could something that felt so right actually be so wrong?

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

The more we give away, the more is given to us.