I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.