Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

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.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

The best gift you can give yourself is to give to someone else

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

The more holy, the more humble.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.