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.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

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

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

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