The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

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 is matter? Never mind.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.

There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.