We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.