Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

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.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.