A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

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.

When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.

I'm afraid of those cows, ' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows, ' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard.

This very moment calls for you to rise to the test and show your challenges what you are truly made of.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge we must settle things by the sword.

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.