Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Rome is everybody's memory.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.