Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

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.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

There is a good things to those who wait..

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.