Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

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.

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

Email is the scourge of our age, ' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.

He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.