I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

I am young to learn.

You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man’s responsibility for the family

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

A great purpose with great commitment can definitely create a great life with great value

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

Life without friends is death without witness.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.