From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

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.

Don’t be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities

To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.

No one believes in Hell--until they get there.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.