Insanity is a lack of proportion.
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
My mother was my first jealous lover.