Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

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.

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.