Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

There is always something missing that torments me.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.

Commerce is the school of cheating.

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.