By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

A book is a suicide postponed.

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment.

Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful.

In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.