Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

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.

To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.