In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the differen….

Necessity is the author of change..

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian….

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting….

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard..

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food..

Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of I….

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago..

The Italian economy has been held back for decades..

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life..

I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of g….

Listen to presences inside poems..

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself..

Here we are now, entertain us..

I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-ne….

Love can tame the wildest..

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twentie….

You don't take a picture, you make a picture..

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's ….

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence..