Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

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.

Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.