Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

---

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

---

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

---

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

---

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

---

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

---

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

---

To survive, you must tell stories.

---

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

---

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

---