Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

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.

instead of being obsessed with watching greatness i'd rather do greatness

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the "Housewives." I am a huge fan of "New Jersey."

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.

Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.