The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

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.

The spirit of life is the spirituality of soul.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things.

When you press the shutter, time won't see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment... and thats the best Farewell for that moment.

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.