The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

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.

Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

Over prepare, then go with the flow.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

I would date a model, but I would rather marry a fan or a normal person.