When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.