The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

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.

Use your imagination to create your beautiful life.

you wanna cause a scene?

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.