The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

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.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

Go for it. It will make a great story.

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

Educarers demonstrate love by showing and teaching respect.

The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.