The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

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?

That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.