I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.