So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally.

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more