My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.