Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

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.

If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.