What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

What we see in a democracy governed by “representatives” is not a government “for the people” but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.

Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.

Why do we walk when we can fly by spreading the wings of our love?

Be as audaciousAs you wish.By all means look to the heavens.

And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

Some of us should learn to ask for bold things that require God.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.