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.

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.

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.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

There is much in this world that hurts us, but if we let pain become our master, we live our lives as slaves.

We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn’t everything.

If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains

Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.

The pleasure was all yours.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.