Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.