Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then they're all Italians.

Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America, even though she's a creation of America.

Give away everything to have it forever.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

If marathoners finish they win.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.