A good book is an event in my life.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world