If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

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.

Every situation is a spiritual journey.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

What's Princeton doing today?

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

I wanted to be a professional drummer.