Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

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.

Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.

Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood

Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.