To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.
Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.
The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
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.
Rome is everybody's memory.