Sometimes my characters are not myself.

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 hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead.

Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

Hope is not a method.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

Black illusion is all I ever see.

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better.