I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

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.

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

How could I live without powder?

We will not know Him, until we become like him.

I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.