Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

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.

Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It’s called being an example.

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

He who can does. He who can't teaches.

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.

I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.