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 the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

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

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.