Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

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.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Hope is like a dream with plan and purpose.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.

This means the world to me that you guys are here with me celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t express it enough.

It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.