The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

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?

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

We lost our way, our society lost our way.

So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.