Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.

Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine at dinner, which was done in the Latin countries. In Italy we always had a glass of wine at dinner. It is a good thing. But if you have dozens of glasses of wine at dinner it is not so good.

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.