but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

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.

In LIFE, You Meet with People You Wish You Knew Them for Ages and you will meet with people you will wish they were gone for ages.

Music fathoms the sky.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect