Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

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?

For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.

I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287

What they actually did matters more than what they said

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

I've always been a tech-head.

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

I threw so hard I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.