We change ideas like neckties.

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?

Never look in the mirror when your stressed it’s contagious

Some things aren’t meant for sunlight. The only place for them is in the shadows.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

I have actually gotten to like fear.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.