"If it weren't for the suffering of others to make us laugh, we would never laugh."

"A writer is always someone, to me, who has failed at something else in life."

"Antonio Delfini, Diari, 1927-1961, edited by Giovanna Delfini and Natalia Ginzburg, Einaudi, 1982."

"Antonio Delfini, The memory of the Basque, Nistri - Lischi, Pisa, 1956."

"We want to change the world, or change its place. (From Notes of a Stranger, Marka, 1990)"

"I was promoted to serf (that's progress). (From Diaries, 1927-1961)"

"(In parentheses I declare my hatred for all those who for Rome or from Rome wanted, against me and against many other…"

"Then remembering that the Viennese dancer had told me that after Modena, she would go to Bologna, and then to Ferrara…"

"I went to Bologna on the trail of Stendhaliane days and I lost myself, with my heart squeezed like a sensitive hazeln…"

"She took a long sigh and slowly stood up. Big and heavy, with a wide and long gray skirt with black stripes, and a da…"