The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

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?

Love is the essence of life.

It is The Action That We are Taking NOWThat will Determine our FUTURE Lives

Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.

Six foot six he stood on the groundHe weighed two hundred and thirty-five poundsBut I saw that giant of a man brought downTo his knees by love

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

This is something which I think this country needs... I want universal coverage! I want everyone in Massachusetts and in this country to have insurance. I support universal health care.