I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.