What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

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.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected.

Leadership without a following is null and at best loitering

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

People who are good to each other make each other good.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.