I don't want to hear about my death.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.