There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

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

Weather creates character.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.