We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.