Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

We are what we believe we are!

It is impossible for those that tried and kept trying to fail. How can they fail when they have not given up in the task?" N.K.David

Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.

Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you.And then it's over.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

I don't like to fight.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.