I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

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.

When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.

We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.

You write to find out what you believe.

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.