But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

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.

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.

It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

I am mentally bifocal.

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.