We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister - an…

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.