I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

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.

Your beliefs are decisions

When nobody loves you, love yourself.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

Everything matters. Time is precious.

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.

I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate.