I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.
A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.
It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.
Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.
My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.
I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.