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.

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.

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

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

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.

Rome is everybody's memory.

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