You have to be an artist and a madman...

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.

You might be a big fish in a little pond, Doesn't mean you've won'Coz along may come a bigger one.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.