Cynicism's always a pose - always.

If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.

A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.

I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.