Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.

Remember what you always told me.” “Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Fate was a train that didn't stop until it reached its final destination.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.