Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

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.

I would rather be kind than wise.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

Any action is better than no action at all.

I kinda write in sequences that I live through.

I'm not sure that being a man in the fashion industry has any advantage over being a woman. Why would it?