A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

No act of kindness deserves a debt in return.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

The present was better. Much, much better. Humans had coffee now. And gelato.

There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it

Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!