The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

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.

Be your authentic self! Who you truly are

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

What gets celebrated gets replicated.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

I don't have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that'll save some time.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.