I am myself and I am here.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.