Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

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.

Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.

I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

I always love a side of guacamole with everything.

We are here to love. Not much else matters.

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.

If you don’t send Edward out, we’re coming in after him! (Emmett)

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.