Italian Journalist Quotes

Italo Calvino

Alberto Moravia

Carlo Collodi

Antonio Tabucchi

Indro Montanelli

Luigi Barzini, Jr.

Corrado Maria Daclon

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

In school today, I'll learn to read, to-morrow to write, and the day after to-morrow I'll do arithmetic.

Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

Alberto Moravia

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

Indro Montanelli

The military front in its traditional meaning has disappeared and has been replaced by something structurally different. As a result of a set of variables such as globalisation, information technology, international finance, etc., we have now moved from a geopolitics based on space to a geopolitics based on flows.

Corrado Maria Daclon

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

Alessandro Baricco

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini, Jr.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

Antonio Tabucchi

Believe it or not, after the Second Vatican Council anticlericalism is a Catholic virtue. In elaborating a theology of laity, as many call it, and speaking of a hierarchy of service rather than of domination in the Church, Vatican II implicitly endorsed opposition to clericalism, which is a policy of maintaining or increasing the power of a religious hierarchy. Clearly, this sort of anticlericalism has nothing to do with the other anticlericalism.

Leon Bertoletti

The fragmentation of armed groups is among our major concerns

Maurizio Giuliano

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

Tiziano Terzani

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Catholicism is like a bowl of spaghetti, full of different strands. It is only if you eat them all together that it will do you any good.

One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain.... It is the devil's money going back to hell.