The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

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.

Its easy to be a show off, but it is hard to know how to show it off.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

Step forward, use your voice, get out in the world, and live!

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.