Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?