All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

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.

Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it.

For someone named Alice, you’re really not all that up on your Wonderland trivia.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?