Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.
Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.
Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.
When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.
I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.