She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

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.

Divorce is success. Failure is staying married to a person you no longer love.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

Your strength is how calmly, quietly and peacefully you face life.

Nothing is more precious than your baby.

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.