There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

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 we fail to see what others see and emphasise on what they lack to see. The I of a different eye.

If you are thinking of making everyone happy, you are going to be a great prostitute.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one

Power is a test - the test - of character.

The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.