We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

A book is a suicide postponed.

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

I found out what the secret to life is - friends. Best friends.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.