I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

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.

The only spark of humanity in me is from you, because I love you. If you die, so do I.

In the Valley of healing dreams

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.