He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.

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.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

The sacred time will define the sacred event.

The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

I'm getting better every day in every way.

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

I believe in being a modivator.

Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.