Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.