The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

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.

Accept the pain cherish the joys resolve the regrets then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over I'd do it all the same."

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

I love my life, I wouldn't give it up for the world.

I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn’t.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.

why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.