Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

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

Porches are America's lost rooms.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

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.

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