Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.