I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

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.

Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant, ” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

A new study found that Americans are exercising more than ever but still not losing much weight. Not good in fact, it's all I could think about on my jog to Dunkin' Donuts.

I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

All the collaborations that I've done that I'm really proud of with a lot of incredible Canadian artists and beyond, that's when art comes together and becomes something really special.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.