Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.