It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

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.

When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.

Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.

I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

I definitely hope that I'm improving. If I'm not, there's a problem - I'm just coasting.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.