Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.