Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
Desire creates its own object.
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.