We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

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?

You are responsibility of your life.

Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later.

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

Love perseveres. It's men who change.

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.