A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.