Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

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.

We have to get you a haircut sometime today. You're starting to look like a sulky rock star." "Well, I am a rock star, " he said, deadpan

She did not care where he was or how she was going to find him, all she knew is the reward would be worth it...however, alive, kicking and raring to go would be preferable

lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

Too many things are possible in a dream. It's most interesting when you don't know which space you're in.

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.