It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
Alberto MoraviaOur ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto MoraviaYes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizingโIโm a liar, in fact. That means Iโm a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
Alberto Moravia