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

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

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

The love of power excludes all others.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

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