The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

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.

Are you in pain, pray?

The hypocrisy and infidelity are two flaws, but they can be treated if we can be faithful to ourselves.

Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)

I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

Features, the great soul's apparent seat.