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

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

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.