What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.

My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I’m pretty sure it’s yours too.

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.