Desire creates its own object.

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

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.

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.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.