What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

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.

Time has no meaning, Love will endure..

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Que sais je? [What do I know?]

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.