Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No", said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why, " asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?

There's a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain't everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.

It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Take a second look, you might have not seen it all.

No one country can confront them alone…the only way forward is together.

"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.