The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

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.

In this country our principles should not be silent.

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction.

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.