Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

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.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

Have you inspired someone today by your actions?

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Negative attitudes bring negative results.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.