If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.