You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.