"The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not."

"It is normal to be sad when one is thinking."

"It is necessary to die to be able to live. And if we can't die, then we can't live."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"If I had to write a book on ethics, it would have a hundred pages. Ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write: 'I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.'"