How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

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.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Not bad, not bad at all, " Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

Who do you love more, your thoughts or God?

You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.