Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . ..

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies..

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible..

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good..

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me..

One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of….