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Leadership does not depend on being right. ”
Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness. ”
The public school has become the established church of secular society. ”
I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. ”
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. ”
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. ”
I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party. ”
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ”
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement. ”
Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous. ”