[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

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.

It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her...

What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world and she could only give you the skies.

I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

Never interrupt a lady when she is speaking to you, as if what you have to say is more important.

Good things should be praised.