We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were, we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

I don't want to be a genius, I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

That must be wonderful; I have no idea what it means.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.