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

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

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

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

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

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.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.