You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

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?

In truth, I doubt I'd notice if a herd of giant Irish elk stomped through the entire chamber when I'm in the act of lovin' you, Lainna!

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.

In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.