Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

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.

Carve your own adventure, bloom your own romance, thread your own signs

Sometimes you're going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there's nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

As a singer you're a great dancer.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.