When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

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.

You are way awesome than you think you are. Don't forget about your awesomeness today

A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.

Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.