Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

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.

The pathway to a truly successful life is to yearn, learn and earn.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint orthey are not telling the whole story.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.