If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own..

Missing rubs the soul raw..

Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on ….

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all le….

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration..

So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy..

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the ….

Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych….

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands..

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least..