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.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

My mother was my first jealous lover.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

The past is a sorry country.

Porches are America's lost rooms.