To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

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?

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?

Stephenie Meyer + Science = wrong!

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Every plan is a house of cards.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.