Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

whoever approaches his goal dances

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.