“I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day...” — Sirio Maccioni Quote

“I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.”

“I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.”

“I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.”

“My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'”

“All Italians speak Spanish without studying.”

“We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.”

“Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.”

“In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.”

“When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.”

“You don't need a murder on a Martian colony. What is more dramatic than love? There's highs and lows, especially in your twenties, when it completely takes you over.”

“Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.”