Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

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.

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

There is no perfect day in calendar, it’s just a matter of number. Sometimes you’ve to make your day perfect by picking one moment...

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory language. Making the list available is discretionary under the law.