Boris Vian

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.”

“I spend most of my time darkening it, because the light bothers me.”

“Chance is God strolling incognito.”

“One should be able to choose one's death, after having chosen one's life.”

“Snobbery is a champagne bubble hesitating between a burp and a fart.”

“Humour is the courtesy of despair.”

“The main thing in life is to make-believe. You make-believe you're alive.”

“What interests me is not the happiness of all men, but that of each one.”

“Life is like a tooth. At first you don't think about it, it just grows. Then it hurts, you have it pulled, and there is a hole left.”

“I'm not saying it's good, I'm saying it's the way it is.”

“The only things that are important are the things that are not important.”