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

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

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

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

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

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.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.