The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

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.

You are such a wolf.”

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home.