Poetry creates the myth, 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.

Anxiety is who people want you to be. Calm is who you are.

I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.