Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Master the art of finding something to celebrate about in each moment and life will become an exciting adventure

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.