You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

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.

If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.

Believe in magic. Believe in the impossible

Eyes skip a low-key profile.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

When enough people agree on something, I'd be an idiot, if I didn't listen.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.