Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

A fate is not a punishment.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

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

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.