Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.

There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

Life is an individual race.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.