I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

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.

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.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.