To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

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?

To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.

I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.