Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.