“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

“There's something perverse about women… they're all masochists at heart.”

“Remember this… develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.”

“It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.”

“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”

“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”

“… And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.”

“We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories […] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.”

“It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.”

“I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.”