Alberto Moravia Quotes

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.