Man is condemned to be free

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.