In memory Venice is always magic.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

What you desire you call into being.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

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.

To sleep is an act of faith.