"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."

“I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.”

Source : "Balotelli: I'm a misunderstood genius". Interview to France Football, www.espnfc.com.

“Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.”

“You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.”

“To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.”

“Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.”

Source : "7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to Your Novel". www.writersdigest.com. December 17, 2012.

“Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.”

Source : Bruce Schneier (2009). “Schneier on Security”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

“I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.”

Source : "Non vince la scienza" by Umberto Veronesi, www.repubblica.it. November 14, 2008.

“When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.”