Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

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 a people has no translations and is unable to promote its culture, it does not exist.

I listen mostly to classical music.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.