Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

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.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

You grow only when you groom someone to take your position.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation