The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

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.

How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

You are beautiful no matter what they say, remember words can´t bring you down

There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'.

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.

When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.