People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

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 I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.