I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

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.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.

All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.

I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

My heart is not peripheral to me.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.