The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

A bride never forgets her wedding ornaments!

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.

Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.

Is That All There Is?

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.