Do you remember Italy?

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.