Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.