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

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

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."