Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
Food is my drug of choice.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.