she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

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.

Even poison has an expiry date.

Gracious speech comes from pure heart.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

Liberalism means well, but it destroys

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.