it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

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.

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

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.