Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

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.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

...New Beginning to the same old story

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.