I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

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.

Courage promotes leaders

Truth is the flower of adversity.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?