Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

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.

Never forget the child inside

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

I'm getting pretty worried. My girlfriend hasn't gotten her period. And she's already 14.

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.