She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

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.

freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted

Help me Cassius or I sink!

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent