Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

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.

The political parties who prefer lockdowns should end their politics that is based on negative attitude.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

To choose not to choose is still to act.

I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.

1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.