Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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.

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

To be a Jew is a destiny