In memory Venice is always magic.
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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.
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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.