In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

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.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Talk to me. Say something, anything, " he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal."There's nothing to say."He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?

Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

The highest state is laughter.

I'd like to end up sort ofunforgettable.

If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"

Only dreams give birth to change.