Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion an….

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm..

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue..

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future..

The best work is a fusion of love and praise..

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time..

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence..

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination..

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge..

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people..

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay..

Desire creates its own object..

Food is my drug of choice..

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He ….

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships..

In memory Venice is always magic..

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

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings..

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

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….

Porches are America's lost rooms..