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.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Most sex is not really intimate.

People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.