Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

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.

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.

To establish principles of her kingdom is to function In Optimal Health

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

My accomplishments are endless.

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.