It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.