The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

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.

Do not trust a person who never fails. Failure is the incubator for character development.

Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation

The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.

You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Each day has a color, a smell.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.