And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

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.

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.