We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

When life asks you a question, you learn. When you ask a question from life, you cry.

In God, the majority is not always right, enter through the narrow gate

Well begun is half done.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby.

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.