The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

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.

In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of helplessness, misery and heartache.

There are people in the world that believe in God and those who don't. I wonder how the ones without God can live.

There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.