The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

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.

A scary movie or a book isn't still made. But I'm waiting for that!

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure

I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.