It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

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.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.