In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

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.

After all, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another human-being is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love.

True kindness ennobles the giver

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.