I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.