I knew I was in England by the smell.

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.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.