Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.

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.

Unconditional love = stress free life. Only those who receive or give can understand this equation.

Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go deep enough if people find out the truth?

Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.