“Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families”

“Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.”

“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.”

“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.”

“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”

“In Sicily where food is love and the street is a stage street food is more than a cheap meal it's Communion.”