I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

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

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.

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

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.