Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

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.

A book is not completed till it's read.

What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

War is the province of danger.

My nipples could cut glass.

My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.