You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

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

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

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

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.