to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Desire creates its own object.

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

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