I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

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.

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.