Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

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 have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.

Pain is there when you are born, Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it, laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.