We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics

Matter is but the artificial division of energy.

Wishing gets you nothing.

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?

Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.