Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Whoever said it was better to have loved and lost was completely full of shit.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.

On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

More is learned in pain than in pleasure.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.