I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.