Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

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.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason

She loved so much misteries tha she became one

You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.

The journey may be more important than the destination.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.