Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

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.

By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.

If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

Only wear clothes that make you feel alive.