Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

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.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.

A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.