True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

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?

If there is true ‘Selfishness, ’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

You're sacking them, you're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.

Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

There was only one person who I shared everything with, and that was my husband.

optimism is a disease

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.