We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser.

Little bundle of contradictions

When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, "Well, what do you think the United States should do?" My response is, "Why should the United States do anything?"

The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

I'm Larry David. I happen to enjoy wearing women's panties.