Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

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.

Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

There's almost a Darwinian quality about the NFL.

I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded