nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

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.

I'm just a girl, with a pen and a dream

Leadership is hard to train on.

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

Details create success.

I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants.

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.