Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.