It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

If your plan will do more harm than good, then God will not permit it

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

Face the truth, face it. Don't face the lie, face the truth!

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

I love the role that men play in our lives.

The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.