In Italy there are two emergencies. This is what I hear, and this is what all the stats say. Employment and security.

If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.

I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.

I don't understand why Italians should be bound to Brussels's choices without being able to express themselves through a referendum.

First of all we need to move past the euro.

Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

The euro is a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

We need to push our border across the Mediterranean - hoping that Libya can find a new balance as soon as possible.

If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing.

One foe you must conquer in your quest to cross over to he other side is fear

I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

If God wanted women to be treated equally to men, he'd have given them penises.