Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

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.

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

Adversity is a spiritual awaken in every soul.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is getting bodies into seats.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.