I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.