It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country