Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

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?

You thought it would break you in two, but it made you twice as strong.

Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.

You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.