The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

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.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

Don’t you ever cry again, Miss Zarish, ” he said in a strict but mild tone. “I would rather die than see tears in your eyes.

The divine inspiration comes from God.

The best lie was always just short of the truth.

Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.