“[Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]MARLEEN WALKER: “Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building.”TIZIANO CONTI: “Am I breaking the law right now?”

“HELEN HAYES: “Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?”TIZIANO CONTI: “The fifth Canto.”HELEN HAYES: “The Hell, huh?”TIZIANO CONTI: “L’inferno depicts the truth.”

“I understand now that a Trojan of literary achievement writes out of passion, out of necessity.”

“Call me a bad private eye, but I came to the conclusion that nobody is happy with what they’ve got. You have a healthy relationship, then, you look for a spicy one. You have an unhealthy relationship, your struggle is to find a peaceful one.”

“I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks as heroes do, experiencing, living, becoming the main character—but no matter what, we all have at least one story to tell.”

“Whoever makes you laugh hard, he will make you cry madly.”

“No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.”