For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

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.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?

Tell me when you want to pick it up again." "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight." "I'll do that. Lunch?

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.