Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

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.

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.

The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.

While there is Ego, you will never be one with the universe... Or love your fellow man.

To be so lonelyyou told yourself you liked to be this way& almost believed it was true.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

You can't look stupid if you're having fun.

... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.

There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.