I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Learn the rules. And play by the rules.

Life is must be filled with endless hope.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.