To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

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.

Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.

Win them with your infectious optimism and burning smile.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.