Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

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

[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.

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.

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.