Not bad, not bad at all, " Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

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.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.