There was a time when time did not yet exist.

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?

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.

That favorite subject, Myself.

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.