From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

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.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

Your life is not a simulation

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

It's been a privilege to be here.

There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.