that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

A sudden shock rattles your soul. The ground shifts. In minutes it is over, but it takes a long time to find your center of balance again

I know what success means to me – it is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. That’s what success is to me

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear

I prefer to look up in hope than down in expectation.

He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.