Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

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?

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

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.