If we want things to stay as they are, things will... - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quotes

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was an Italian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo , which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento. A taciturn and solitary man, he spent a great deal of his time reading and meditating, and used to say of himself, "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people."