The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

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?

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.