The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.

Friends have a way of speaking without words.

Comfort is key for a barbecue.

Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.

Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.

Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

I don't take characters home with me.

I am me and I am okay.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.