"In fact, at the bottom, Etna forms a cone. But how different from what you imagined! Is this the terrible Mongibello,…"

"We enter sleep through an act of daily selfishness: into death through definitive selfishness."

"The present, which is in time what the facade is in space, prevents us from seeing things in depth."

"In Sicily I relive my childhood. In the night of my childhood memories, the wheels, the stars, the fireworks rockets …"

"In Sicily women are in the foreground and in all sectors of social life. Confident, loose in manners, in speech, in d…"

"What we call the modernization of life is nothing but a continuous and increasingly greater demonic complication."

"[Speaking of the harp This tiny, stringless lyre is a voice vibrator. It makes the human voice say what the human voi…"

"The true compared to the false, is more false than false. (Ministerial Trip, p. 34)"

"It's the first time I've seen Sicily. It is the cradle, my father told me, of our people. That land over there, drawn…"

"In Catania the baroque is an eruptive disease."