I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

Collecting is my passion.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'

The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You're beginning to freak me out.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.