The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

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.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.