Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

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.

Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.