We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

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.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We are our choices.