Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.
Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.
By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success