Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

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.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.

Always look within, to seek out the love and joy residing inside of you and then look to find your dark shadows falling behind you disappear.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.