Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

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.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.