La Grande Bellezza 

"Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its stregth. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a ficticious narrative. Litrrè says so, and he's never wrong. And besides, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes. It's on the other side of life."

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Journey to the End of the Night

"- Stefano has the keys to Rome's most beautiful buildings.

- Is he a doorman?

- No, he is not a doorman. He's friend with Princesses."

"It is all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty."