I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

Always a godfather, never a god.

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.