Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

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.

Masters today, were Starters Yesterday, so begin now.

Don't wait for a future moment

After you clean your subconscious, you can insert new beliefs into your mind otherwise your old beliefs can sabotage the new ones.

...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.