What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

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?

Husbandry is the foundation of civilization - all sustenance derives from it, as well as the principal benefits and blessings that civilization brings.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.