Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

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.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly. "Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him. "Really?" "god no. That was terrible

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

Good education has got to be good entertainment.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.