Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

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.

Nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

The secret of our success is found in our daily agenda.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

It is natural for the immature to harm others. Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.