Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

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.

Blessings never come in pairs misfortunes never come alone.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

We go where our deepest desires take us.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door

Somebody should talk to Dan Quayle and tell him natural blondes don't have dark grey stripes on the sides.

Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.