Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

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.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Your life will only be as good as you continuously interpret it to be regardless of the circumstances that you are faced with.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.

In New York, they understood that my country was not a country, but winter. And that my road was not really a road, but snow.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.