When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

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 hate will be your bitter end.

People are who they are by the way they react to things.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Donald Trump is not the real deal. I think as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio made that very clear.