Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

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?

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.

I'm not good at multi-tasking.