Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!.

I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooki….

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out..

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookboo….

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast….

I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thin….

I am very proud to be Italian..

I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything I….

This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating imag….

Well, I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you kno….

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!.

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs..

Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimat….

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to m….

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an It….

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back..

But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to b….

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't….

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers..

This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache..