I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Joy came always after pain.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Better be a chameleon to face this ever changing world.

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.