Weather creates character..

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites..

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagi….

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing..

There are no original ideas. There are only original people..

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small h….

It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is….

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselv….

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence..

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trust….

Insanity is a lack of proportion..

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to..

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end..

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a p….

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us..

Porches are America's lost rooms..

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny..

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings..

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much..

In memory Venice is always magic..

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depen….