I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.