Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

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.

I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world.

Wander with intentinto a garden glorious.Walk with double briskupon edenic paths.Flee the cursing fearthat lights upon your eye.Seize the twisted dreamthat strangles earth and sky.

Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.