Porches are America's lost rooms..

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

In memory Venice is always magic..

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh….

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

Desire creates its own object..

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

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

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers..

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

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

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

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

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

All our loves are contained in all our other loves..

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….

[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 ….

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

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border..

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

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