Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

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.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

life is what u make it, if you want yours to be a cake just go ahead and bake it

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.

The landscapist lives in silence.

As a tither you automatically become solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.