Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

Good intentions aren't enough, you must take right actions.

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.

She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.