I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.

After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.