Porches are America's lost rooms.
To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
Silence is the garment of light.
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.