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

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Live to the point of tears.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

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

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.

The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Every scar is a burial of pain, every face is a graveyard of days.

McDonald’s is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl’s face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.

I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.

Acceptance is taking from God’s hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.