Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition. - Cesare Pavese

There is a reason why I came back to this place—came back here instead of to Canelli, Barbaresco or Alba. It is almost certain that I was not born here; where I was born I don't know. There is not a house or a bit of ground or a handful of dust hereabouts of which I can say: "This was me before I was born."

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

See, you're like all the others. But don't you understand that we can't quarrel? We love each other. If I could hate him the way I hate myself, then of course I would abuse him. But neither of us deserves it. See?