What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

The supernatural does not exist.

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

[A writer] cannot serve today those who make history

You don’t have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.

We live a moment at a time and this is unique.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.

Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?

Now you’re thinking like me. A little eye-gouging, some slit nostrils…I could seriously get into that. (Acheron)

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.