Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

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.

What happens to us is for the Most High to be revealed in glory.

A deep wound inside him began to heal. And he suddenly knew that being separated from this woman would only bring him a certain sadness.

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

It lingers in this room like the voices that still echo here, some belonging to a man who’d once been alive, and the rest belong to others who’ve never drawn breath.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.