I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

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.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

Life without risks is not worth living.

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Pants get shiny even on a throne.

It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.