Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

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.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever give it up.

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.

If it's in people's interest to invest in renewables and invest in clean technologies, I'm convinced it will happen.

We see the universe the way it is because we exist.