There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

I have a very low eerie threshold.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.