To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

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?

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.

Throughout world history, all freedom has been no more than repetitious abolishment of what has already been abolished. There is no end to the killing of weeds.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.