Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

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.

But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed, " Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.

I never thought... that someone liked me... not like a demon... not like a half-demon... not even like human... just like... just like me!" -Inuyasha

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

Rumor is not always wrong