A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.