I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.