Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.