If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Lotto is a tax for stupid people. An extra tax.
A good breakfast can save the day.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
It’s okay to be a little fucked up in the head. We all are. It’s only when you’re fucked up in the heart that makes you a piece of shit.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.