Normal people have nothing to forget.

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?

Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.