“I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.”

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

The universe is a thought of God.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

A God-intoxicated man.

God made Blues right after he made woman.