We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

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.

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.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

When your focus is too narrow you can miss the big picture.

Lead by example, not by instruction.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

Love is the recognition of beauty.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.