That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

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 anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

When I was going into acting, my mom said, "You can't let that faze you. And if it does faze you, if you start getting upset if people say no, that's it - pull the plug."

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.