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.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

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

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.