To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

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?

Prophesy positive words into your life.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.

I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.