I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

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.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

Everything you do with a horse is a dance.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

You don't know what you don't know.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.