When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

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

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

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.