Porches are America's lost rooms.

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

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

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

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.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.